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Scarlet Ferret - Special Edition Ebooks 🇵🇸 @scarletferret.com · 21d

Interzone #303 is out now at Scarlet Ferret! 🔴

Featuring short stories, essays, reviews, columns, and much more, with a stunning cover by Martin Hanford.

Interzone 303 - Scarlet Ferret

Featuring short stories, essays, reviews, columns, and much more, every month.

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👻Wereman 🐺🎃 @spookarties.bsky.social · Dec 1

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

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Scarlet Ferret - Special Edition Ebooks 🇵🇸 @scarletferret.com · 9h

Ha!

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Paul Myers @pulmyears.bsky.social · 1d

A cartoon by Barry Blitt.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 10h

Tsundoku, nerds!

Buy more books!

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 12h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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sleepynemo-draws.bsky.social @sleepynemo-draws.bsky.social · 11h

Boosting in case anyone knows the specific one, but also useful replies in the 🧵

Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 16h

I am desperately trying to find a specific tutorial on building html-based portfolio sites; all i remember about it is it is white or green text on a black background. I lost my phone and all my tabs with it; I'm sorry I can't be more specific. feel free to share any tutorials you like too!

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Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 11h

I'm not kidding when I say that cancelling my Spotify subscription has not affected my life in any way, other than that I spend the money on Bandcamp instead and the artists get paid infinitely more.

Easiest subscription I've ever dropped. You really don't need it like you perhaps think you do

demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 4d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 18h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 16h

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 16h

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 18h

Big day! Here's the thing I've been working on for the past few months.

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 18h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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public static void @staticvoidmain.bsky.social · 21h

british banks are notorious for laundering blood money for drug cartels but this is where they draw the line

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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 20h

Haidar al-Ghazali is an extraordinary young talent and one of the new generation of poets forged in the horrors of Israel’s genocide.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvoq...

Poets in Gaza #2 | Haidar al-Gahazali: "I will call you my sorrow"

YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature

www.youtube.com

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Kevin O'Dell @kevodell.bsky.social · 1d

I've just been listening to the first (?) PalFest podcast featuring Wiam El-Tamami in conversation with Batool Abu Akleen, talking about her new book of poetry, '48Kgs'.. I found it heartbreaking yet inspiring. Do give it a listen on your podcast platform. @palfest.bsky.social

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MarcoMaps Bernardini @marcomaps.bsky.social · 20h

Hi #PortfolioDay !
I'm Marco, a queer cartographer specialized in creating maps that make you want to live and have adventures in them! 🏰🌲

A map of a 80's themed American suburban town

A map of a Dwarven city built on the side of a giant waterfall

A map of a continent with diverse biomes and zoomins of various locations

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clair dunlap @smallgourd.bsky.social · 1d

my partner & i are reading The Mabinogion (Davies translation) out loud before bed and "it is unfortunate that I spent one hundred and forty pounds worth of precious ointment on a man without knowing who he is" had me crying laughing reading The Lady of the Well the other night

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 1d

One of the hardest things about so many surviving medieval texts—particularly in Arthurian Legend—is you don’t know if they were meant to be taken seriously, or if they were meant to be jokes, told to drunk people, while drunk

This is one reason Monty Python is FR one of the best retellings

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 1d

Yuichi Suzuki, 48, has added “make copy of haunted video” to his to-do list, but has conceded it’s unlikely he’ll remember he made a list at all.

AuDHD man who will die in seven days unless he makes copy of tape had a pretty good run, to be fair

An auDHD man who watched a creepy videotape and then received a voicemail informing him that he would die in seven days unless he made a copy has reportedly resigned himself to the inevitable. …

thedailytism.com

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Scarlet Ferret - Special Edition Ebooks 🇵🇸 @scarletferret.com · 22h

1,700 kidnapped men, women, and CHILDREN!

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h

They won't be named or interviewed either. They will be referred to as prisoners, not hostages, despite many of them being detained for no reason and having no charges levelled against them. All because their kidnapper was a brutal, authoritarian regime.

valloween @trickycrayon.bsky.social · 1d

We are over 10 minutes now on coverage of the hostages being reunited with their families.

There was honestly a less than 30-second spot showing some of the buses coming in with Palestinians.

1700 people were held with no charges or convictions.

No happy videos of reunification there.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 22h

"quarter of the typical energy bill in 2024 was profit. That is equivalent to every household paying £416 a year so other people can grow rich. The water industry tells a similar story. Almost a third of the average bill goes towards funding shareholder dividends and interest payments."

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence

A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank

www.theguardian.com

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 22h

The printer got back to me - they are ready for collection.

:D

Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 1d

So, temporary tatts of a certain wolf design/art/pattern are available soon...

:P

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

Great question, I uploaded an answer to that to my Patreon subscribers, but I opened it up b/c I think they've had exclusivity for a few months and this may be of interest to a wider audience:

tobiasbuckell.com/how-i-used-t...

and:

tobiasbuckell.com/creating-a-c...

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 1d

Some people are more invested in the fetishisation of the book as an object and the act of reading as a cultural signifier than either the pleasure of reading or the pursuit of knowledge.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Short story collections should be way more popular and marketed better for the short-attention present.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Scarlet Ferret - Special Edition Ebooks 🇵🇸 @scarletferret.com · 1d

What the hell, Guardian?!

Israelis were 'hostages' while Palestinians were 'prisoners and detainees'?

You fucking racists!

‘I’m shaking all over’: hugs, tears and relief in Israel as Gaza hostages return
4h ago

Palestine
‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow
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shazleen @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social · 1d

I am organising direct action against Reform UK to fight against their racist misinformation. Posted more about it over on my insta, but here's the main bits!

Find out more: www.instagram.com/sticker_up_f...
Grab a PDF of the zine: www.shazleenkhan.shop

too many people i love are being victimized by nigel farage and i am going to mobilise the entire uk comics industry to fucking defeat him and protect myself, immigrants and refugees

our target is the 2026 local council elections. through targetted sticker and flyer campaigns i aim to destroy reform UK's momentum in vulnerable constituencies throughout the UK

this is a link to resources. I am sorry people who use screen readers I am not able to transcribe everything. I am one guy and I am doing this on voluntary basis. if you use a screen reader and have mates who would be willing to help me convert my text posts into readable formats please link us up

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